Don't miss a thing by signing up to the MyOldham newsletter here Changes to Oldham’s local planning policy will see two areas lose protection from development once it comes into force.
The council’s cabinet has agreed to adopt an interim planning paper on ‘other protected open land’, or OPOL, following a review.
Sites with OPOL designation are areas of land which are not in the green belt but which were protected from development as they provided ‘important breaks’ between built up areas.
However the national planning policy framework does not use the OPOL label, but refers to sites as ‘local green space’ which the council says it considers ‘similar in its function and purpose’.
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